Tonight at 7:00 on the “Evening Concert” on FM 90.9 you’ll hear the Jupiter String Quartet play Hugo Wolf’s “Italian Serenade” on “The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center”. At 8:00 you’ll hear two works for horn and piano by Richard Strauss on the “Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival”.
The music on tonight's concerts comes to us from the "Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center" series and the "Early Music Now with Sara Schneider" series.
To this day what one derives from a reading of Cervantes "Don Quixote" varies by wide margins. Strauss wrote his 'take' on the original by creating a work for Large Orchestra and Soloists in a Theme and Variations form that 'riffs' on various scenes from the novel.
The Metropolitan Opera performs this intense and still-startling work.
Who is the "Hero" of "Ein Heldenleben" (A Hero's Life)? Is it the composer? Is it the archetype presented by Joseph Campbell in his books on mythology?
